On 2010-10-06, Diez B. Roggisch <de...@web.de> wrote: > With an impressive amount of technological experience under his belt. So > I'm a bit aghast to see him struggle with this rather simple > problem. Thus my question...
It does seem a bit odd. I mean, if I had a short time line to get something converted to Python, I'd probably ask for help, but then, I wouldn't take a gig where I needed to quickly move something into an unfamiliar language. I'm happily puttering away slowly at converting a couple of things to Python to get the hang of it, carefully selecting things with no impending deadlines. Thus far, I've converted a shell script to Python. It was... well, shell turned out to be a poor language for it, but I do note that the shell script, including all the here documents, was quite a bit smaller than the Python. On the other hand, I think the Python script is a lot more maintainable, and this despite me not really knowing the language particularly well. It's an interesting tradeoff. Still getting used to the Python way of doing things. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list